Getting Ready for Work Directory

Offers a range of employment skills and training programmes for young people and adults, including courses, apprenticeships and a ‘Forward your Career’ programme.

Email: [email protected]

Telephone: 01273 878260

Website: https://www.albioninthecommunity.org.uk

Offers professional, vocational and university access courses, leisure courses and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL).

Telephone: 01273 422632

Website: https://aldridgeadultlearning.com/

Offer courses centred around employment, well-being and improving confidence.

Telephone: 0800 888 6064

Website: https://www.bestpracticepeople.co.uk/

How will work affect your access to benefits? Or are you supporting someone who is considering a return to work and unsure how this will impact on their benefits?  Get in touch for 1:1 advice and support.

Email: [email protected]

Telephone: 01273 645436

Website: https://www.bht.org.uk/services/work-learning-employment/accommodation-for-work/

Offering accommodation and support to single homeless people in need of accommodation, and support to access or sustain work.

Email: [email protected]

Telephone: 01273 645440

Website: https://www.bht.org.uk/services/work-learning-employment/accommodation-for-work/

An employability training programme which includes work placements.

Telephone: 01273 645444

Website: https://www.bht.org.uk/services/intern-programme/

Supports people living in homeless supported accommodation to gain practical workplace experience to help access employment.

Telephone: 01273645493

Website: https://www.bht.org.uk/services/work-learning-employment/work-placement-programme/

BHT’s Whitehawk Inn is a friendly community centre providing a range of courses, services and support.

Telephone: 01273 682222

Website: https://www.bht.org.uk/services/the-whitehawk-inn/

A local project offering free, personal support for anyone needing some help on their journey into employment.

Telephone: 01273 682222

Website: https://www.bht.org.uk/services/work-learning-employment/routes-internships/

A non-profit organisation helping people learn to cook, access a healthy diet, grow their own food and waste less food.  Offers lots of different ways to get involved.

Telephone: 01273 234810

Website: https://bhfood.org.uk

Offers a range of courses to increase employability skills and to improve wellbeing.

Telephone: 01273 292828

Website: https://adulteducation.brighton-hove.gov.uk/

Offers a comprehensive range of qualifications, full and part time courses for adults, apprenticeships, professional qualifications and university degrees.

Opening Doors – a range of short 3-4 weeks courses, to develop employability skills, for aged 19+, who are unemployed, currently seeking work and claiming benefits. Click here for more information. 

Telephone: 01273 667788

Website: https://www.gbmc.ac.uk

Provides practical support, education and advice to the unemployed and those on low incomes.

Telephone: 01273 671213

Website: https://bucfp.org/

Cascade Creative Recovery delivers creative and wellbeing activities that help build all-round, sustained recovery from alcohol and substance misuse.

Telephone:

Website: https://cascadecreativerecovery.com/

A community space based in Stanmer Park, providing nature-based therapies, opportunities to de-stress and practical activities.

Telephone: 07517 090915

Website: https://www.centreforecotherapy.org.uk/

Volunteers with lived experience of drug and alcohol issues or offending backgrounds support others as peer mentors.

Telephone: 01273 731900

Website: https://www.changegrowlive.org/brighton-hove-recovery-service/get-involved#peer

Employment support for people recovering from drug or alcohol use.

Telephone: 01273 731900

Website: https://www.changegrowlive.org/brighton-hove/support

For anyone who is struggling to manage their money/make ends meet or manage debt.

Telephone:

Website: https://www.cabrightonhove.org/get-advice/

The Clock Tower Sanctuary is the only drop-in day centre providing information, advice and support to homeless young people (aged 16-25) in Brighton & Hove. Opening hours may vary due to Covid-19 – please see website below for up to date details.

Telephone: 01273 722353

Website: http://www.thects.org.uk/what-we-do/

Promotes a range of local volunteering opportunities within Brighton and Hove.

Telephone: 01273 234023

Website: https://www.bhcommunityworks.org.uk/volunteering/

Digital Brighton & Hove (DBH) helps people in the surrounding area to build digital skills and confidence and provides devices and data packages and connectivity when possible.

Telephone: 01273 013661

Website: https://abilitynet.org.uk/free-tech-support-and-info/digital-brighton-and-hove

EVOLVE is open to anyone 18+ supported by either drug and alcohol services in Brighton & Hove, or by the YMCA Brighton who has a work, learning, or volunteering goal they would like to achieve.

Telephone: 01273 220900

Website: https://www.ymcabrighton.co.uk/what-we-do/health-and-wellbeing/evolve/

Takes good quality surplus food and distributes it to people who are hungry across Sussex and Surrey. They have a range of volunteering roles and an employability programme.

Telephone: 01273 671111

Website: https://faresharesussexandsurrey.org.uk/

Delivers the Restart scheme, providing a broad range of support and employability solutions.

Telephone: 0800 917 9262

Website: https://fedcap.org.uk/offices/brighton/

A training provider based in Brighton delivering funded and commercially accredited qualifications, to help people develop skills for both in and out of the workplace.

Telephone: 01273 526996

Website: https://functionalskillsuk.co.uk/

Grow offers opportunities to get outdoors, reconnect with nature, and improve wellbeing.

Telephone: 07557 501557

Website: https://www.growingwellbeing.org.uk/

Offers a arrange of employment opportunities for under 25s.

Telephone: 01273 291654

Website: https://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/youth-employment-hub/kickstart-scheme/kickstart-scheme

Supports refugees with employability skills and job searching.

Telephone:

Website: https://thelaunchpadcollective.org/

Supports people from ethnically diverse backgrounds to progress towards and into employment.

Telephone: 01273 234 769

Website: https://trustdevcom.org.uk/project/multicultural-employability-support-hub

Provides a range of support, advice and information to help people with mental health difficulties manage their work and learning needs.

Telephone: 01273 666950

Website: https://www.mindcharity.co.uk/brighton-and-hove/employment-advice

Provides information, advice and guidance to help you make decisions on learning, training and work.

Telephone: 0800 100900

Website: https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/

Further and Higher education college in Plumpton, East Sussex, with short and full-time courses, including apprenticeships, in a variety of land based and environmental subjects. .

Telephone: 01273 890454

Website: https://www.plumpton.ac.uk/

A Sussex based charity enabling and empowering disabled people and people with long-term health conditions to live the life they choose, through a range of services, including support with benefits.

Telephone: 01273 894040

Website: https://www.possabilitypeople.org.uk/

Offer training and support for people who want satisfying jobs in speciality coffee – and who might not normally get a chance.

Telephone:

Website: https://www.probaristas.com/

Intercepts food waste destined for land fill and uses it to feed people who need it, on a ‘pay as you feel’ basis. Offers volunteering in their cafes and distribution hub.

Telephone:

Website: https://www.realjunkfoodbrighton.co.uk/volunteer/

Support for people who are unemployed and have mental health challenges to find and sustain work.

Telephone: 07805 811 186

Website: https://www.southdown.org/services/work-and-wellbeing-sussex/

Offers educational courses and workshops as a route to recover from mental health challenges.

Telephone: 01273 749500

Website: https://www.southdown.org/services/recovery-college-brighton-hove/

A small charity helping some of the most vulnerable people in Brighton and Hove by providing practical, compassionate support and advice to help overcome financial hardship by accessing the benefits they need and managing debt.

Telephone: 01273 549203

Website: https://www.stlukesadviceservice.org.uk/

A 6 to 12 week 1-1 learner centred programme, focussed towards improving English, maths or digital skills for residents living in supported housing.

Telephone: 07713 711174

Website: https://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/families-children-and-learning/adult-education

Operates one of the largest programmes of Swimming Teaching (ASA), Lifeguard qualifications (RLSS) and leisure industry related courses in the UK.

Telephone: 01273 434400

Website: https://www.swimuk.co.uk/

Community project offering a variety of education, employment and leisure support.

Telephone: 01273 706469

Website: https://www.hkproject.org.uk/what-we-do/community-learning-health-wellbeing

Offers courses, enterprise initiatives, confidence building, mentoring opportunities, and much more for 16- to 30-year-olds across the UK

Telephone: 0800 842 842

Website: https://www.kingstrust.org.uk/

Helps young people, aged 16 to 24, overcome the challenges they face and build vital skills for their career, be fully prepared for the workplace and commit to long-term employment.

Telephone: 07519130348

Website: https://spearbrighton.org/

Offers a range of qualification courses to either support a career change, a return to employment, or to simply upskill you for everyday life.

Telephone: 01273 508011

Website: https://www.varndean.ac.uk/adult-education/

Offers courses and programmes to retrain, upskill, and to support people into employment.

Telephone: 01273 281981

Website: https://www.whiteheadrosseducation.com/

Offers a variety of adult education courses including English, Maths, Digital Skills and leisure courses.

Telephone: 01273 945869

Website: https://www.wea.org.uk/

A resource for young adults aged 16 to 25 who live in Brighton & Hove.  They can support you to find opportunities, explore your options, help you plan for your future and reach your education, employment and training goals.

Telephone: 01273 291654

Website: https://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/youth-employment-hub